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Luca Turin

As far as i'm aware, Keller and Voshall's brief communications in Nat Neuro was the first, and only, independent test of any of the predictions made in Luca's origional Chemical Senses paper. They were not able to replicate his key predictaions about human psychophysics (importantly, using non-experts; I wonder what their results would be like if they contracted perfumers?), however he makes many predictions about receptor pharmacology that have not been tested (to my knowledge). As this is my understanding of the status of this debate, I have taken out the reference to supporting evidence for Luca's theory.

Please cite publications that state otherwise as they emerge. mattv 19:30, 28 April, 2006 (UTC)

editor needed

Someone was screwing around with the article and put up that joke about Jews' noses. lol it's funny and all but someone remove it...

Olfactory sense listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Olfactory sense. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 04:04, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to 'sense of smell'?

Hi everyone! Per WP:COMMONNAME, we should rename the article to 'Sense of smell', while keeping 'olfaction' as a bolded term in the first sentence, and a redirect of course. While olfaction may be the technical term, it is not commonly used outside of academia, and may not even be known by native English speakers. The article should be retitled to the plain language and equivalent term 'Sense of smell'. What do you think? Ganesha811 (talk) 11:53, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any thoughts on this? If there is no objection I will be WP:BOLD and move the article myself in a couple of days. Ganesha811 (talk) 15:53, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Given the lack of response, I will now move the article and then make appropriate modifications to the lead. Ganesha811 (talk) 01:48, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 11 May 2021

The request to rename this article to Sense of smell has been carried out.

If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

Olfaction → Sense of smell – Per WP:COMMONNAME, got no objection at talk page, cannot move myself because page already exists Ganesha811 (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Posted to WP:RM/TR but I think it needs a community discussion as the current title has been stable since 2002. (t · c) buidhe 02:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NGRAM Google Scholar results since 2020[1][2] (t · c) buidhe 04:17, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move as proposer - in addition to the Ngram shown above, a search for site:en.wikipedia.org "olfaction" as compared to site:en.wikipedia.org "sense of smell" shows that even on Wikipedia itself, 'sense of smell' is more commonly used. Major newspapers all use 'sense of smell' far more frequently than 'olfaction.' Even in academia, 'sense of smell' is used about 70% as often as the technical term 'olfaction.' Altogether, WP:COMMONNAME indicates that we should move this article. Ganesha811 (talk) 04:36, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Until recently, vandalism pre-emptive full move protection was in place, likely a factor in the stability of the name. –xeno^talk 04:39, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move - what in the world, this is as easy as pie. Common name Red Slash 18:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move per Buidhe. Bibeyjj (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:47, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]